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Why Sheboygan Falls referendum failed

The Sheboygan Falls School Board is planning a survey to find out why the school referendum failed to pass.

The Sheboygan Falls school referendum failed because they awarded the construction management contract to a Milwaukee based company, C.G.Schmidt, whose bid was $260,000 higher than the local Jos. Schmitt & Sons Contruction Co.

Do you think that C.G.Schmidt will give local companies a fair chance when giving out contracts? Local contractors should be given the work; we are familiar with their performance and they have a lot more to lose if their work doesn't measure up to expectations.

They live in Sheboygan County and the loss of a good reputation would mean more to them than to a company 50 miles away from here.

The pricetag for this new school is very high, and with a very shaky economy, it is not the time to take on such a big project.

Rosemary Reiter

Sheboygan Falls

More involvement not always a good thing

Conservatives complain about too much government involvement in their lives They claim the government is taking away their individual freedom and want "government out of our lives." But they really don't.

Right-wing Republicans want more government involvement in some areas.

They want government to insert itself into women's heath/reproductive issues by ending all abortions and restricting contraceptives. Many resist medical marijuana despite its proven benefits to cancer patients.

Right-wingers want government to deny gay people the freedom to marry. And in South Carolina, Republicans want to establish a state religion.

Clearly, they want the government out of their life, but more involved in everyone else's lives

David Henning

Sheboygan

State must step up in education funding

Some thoughts about the brouhaha over the UW's reserved funds: First, be glad it's a surplus, not a deficit.

Second, most of it is actually committed or untouchable because of restricted gifts or federal grant rules.

Third, tuition has kept going up because the portion of operating expenses paid by the state has kept going down.

The proportion of operating expenses paid by the state for what is ostensibly a state institution is now less than 25 percent, less than 20 percent for UW-Madison.

Surely we would all like to see lower tuition costs, to level the field of opportunity, among other reasons. For this to happen, a larger portion of operating expenses should be paid by the state, which long and proudly claimed it as its own.

James Tobin

Town of Wilson

Seeing through Obama's rhetoric

I can't believe 42 percent of Americans think Obama is doing a good job.

When not getting his way on raising the debt ceiling, he threatened to not pay Social Security, military and federal retires. He did not threaten to halt payments to illegal aliens, free cell phones for welfare recipients, foreign aid, this list is far too long to mention here. Most of those who support him are the same people we support through our taxes.

Shameful?

Yes, and to call it what it is would not be printable. Those of us who see through Obama know what is meant here.

Jack Wirtz

Sheboygan

Harmony Award well deserved honor

Congratulations to Linda Wieck of Sheboygan Falls for receiving the Harmony in the Community Award. As I recall, she also received a national award from the USA Weekend magazine a couple years ago.

What started out for her making one camo quilt for her son-in-law when his National Guard unit was activated turned into almost 14,000 quilts for other soldiers who wanted one like his.

Eventually, with the help of many volunteers and donations, this became a major project.

She could have said I don't want to make more than one, but instead said OK, I'll do it. As an Army vet myself, knowing somebody cares is very gratifying. Thank you Linda!

Norman Veldboom

Oostburg

Make the connection, but only if you can

In reading the Drudge Report, I'm a conservative after all. I noticed the side-by-side headlines.

Boston bombers did not have licenses for any weapons, never mind the automatics, and pressure cookers. But of course the very next headline was that the attack may add fuel to the gun control fire.

Someone please tell me how two unlicensed thugs killing innocents contributes anything to how to prevent disturbed individuals from killing.

Now's your chance, Second Amendment haters, make the connection.

Explain how any event even remotely connected to a weapon, gun, bomb, pocket knife, sharpened toothpick, is reason enough to take away rights that have been repeatedly confirmed by any authority without an agenda.

George Kren

Sheboygan

Prisoners of their own paranoia

One wonders why some of our citizens feel the need to live in such fear that they literally hoard firearms, ammunition and food stores in anticipation of some impending catastrophe.

Every event that could be used as a precursor is utilized as justification.

One would think that with Y2K and the end of the Mayan calendar having been literal non-events, we would learn from this.

One of the newer threats is the Muslim Brotherhood, who are said to want to take over the planet. I'm sorry, but if such trivial threats are consuming you, you have my sympathy.

You will most likely have a shorter lifespan due to stress and never get to enjoy a beautiful sunrise over Lake Michigan because you were up all night listening to Alex Jones. You are a prisoner in a jail you built yourself.

Mark Briese

Sheboygan

Why no coverage of abortion 'doctor?'

I am curious as to why the mainstream media, including the Sheboygan Press, has paid so little attention to the murder trial of "Dr." Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia.

Usually when there is mass murder the media can not get enough of it.

Does the media not cover this trial because Gosnell is an abortionist who has allegedly killed babies that have been born or becuase he is a black man and neither of these fit the media's liberal viewpoint?

By not covering this story the liberal media just proves that their viewpoint is wrong and they have to hide it from the public.

Why else would a "newsman" ignore a major news story?

Mike Bean

Town of Sheboygan

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